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Show JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL COURSES DISCUSSED Parents, Patrons, Superintendent Superin-tendent and Supervisors Hold Meeting. A meeting of school patron? ni the parents of all seventh ami eighth grade pupils was held in the assembly room of the East high school last night to discuss , the modifications in the courses for those two grades, made necessary bv the extension of the junior high school system. Superintend enft D. H. I Christensen and a number of supervisors supervis-ors and school principals addressed the parents. Inasmuch as the junior high school plan contemplates the granting of some elective choice to the pupils after they have completed the sixth grade, it was thought expedient to explain the plan to the parents so that in exercising choice the children will have the co-operation of their parents. As explained at the meeting, the junior juni-or high school consists of the seventh and eighth grades and the first year high school. The subjects usually ro-served ro-served for the first year of high school j a? spread judiciously over the iast two 1 years of the grades in such a way as to eliminate the hitherto sharp distinction between the grades and rhe high school. Having completed the junior high siool tEe pupil moves without any noticeable jump into the senior higli school, consisting con-sisting of the last three years ot high school. Also the child is given aD opportunity to express his vocational desires and is allowed to begin to lay the foundation for pursuing those desires by choosing certain courses. There win be a minimum mini-mum of essentialj which he must study, but outside that minimum some choice wijl be left, not entirely to the pupil himself, but to the pupil and parents, co-operating with the school authorities. authori-ties. Twelve junior high school centers have been opened this vear in the larger and more central grade schools find in these the seventh and eighth grade pupils pu-pils have been concentrated. |